In their sociability and informal layout, places of working class recreation continue to resemble the vernacular weekend resort, that lay out side every nineteenth century american town. This was an open space with trees, fields, and water at hand, used informally for recreational gatherings by the towns people on sunday afternoons.
Although such places have yielded to urbanization and to the evolution of leisure time activity, parts of brooklyn's Prospect park seem much like the old grove.
For instance, on the peninsula lies a pleasant field of two or three acres bordering the lake on one side and a placid stream on the other. A dirt path menders along the shore toward the woods beyond the field.
Families gather for picnics under the trees or to sit and look out at the water. Men and boys fish, young people play ball and children ride their bikes.
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